HC Deb 23 May 1940 vol 361 c321W
Sir Smedley Crooke

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he will take steps to prevent those who refuse to accept the full responsibility of citizenship by serving in His Majesty's Forces from being kept or trained for pensionable Government posts by the country for which they refuse service?

Captain Crookshank

Where a civil servant has declared himself to be a conscientious objector to military service and where the objection has been sustained by a tribunal, no automatic action is taken against the individual concerned in the matter of his civil employment. If, however, such an individual refuses, or asks to be relieved of the necessity, to perform any departmental duty appropriately allotted to him as a civil servant, he is not retained in the Civil Service.